Step 1: Get ListId, ListName and WebId from Posts.aspx

Open your site in SharePoint Designer 2013
Go to "All Files" on left and then "Pages" library

Right click on "Posts.aspx" and choose "Edit Fie in Advance Mode"

Use find tool to find "ListId" and then grab the ListId and ListName value

Use find tool to find "WebId" and then grab "WebId" value

Step 2: Make WebPart ready

Download the WebPart and edit it (for example Notepad++).
Replace the ListId, ListName and WebId value that we grabbed in Step1, take a look at following screenshot of replacement done:

Save this WebPart now.

Step 3: Create a page to show author's post

Create a new page and name it "authorposts"

While the page in Edit mode, Go to "Insert" > "WebParts" > "Upload Web Part" and browse to the WebPart that you created in Step2. When prompted click "OK" to save the page.

The WebPart is still not added, once again go to "Insert" tab > "WebPart" > "Imported Web Parts" > "AuthorPosts.webpart" and finally click on "Add" button (on right)

Now save the page

We are done with this step now, so far we have created a page that has WebPart that actually shows the posts.
Now it turns to show the authors list on the left navigation so that users can browser. Let's move to Part 2

Monday, February 3, 2014

I was assigned to do a Nintext Form and when it came to date of birth input, relaying on date picker control was not a good idea, so decided to take input in custom way.

Here is is how I did it.

Step 1: Create control

Put three controls each for Date, Month and Year
Date and Year is Textbox
Month is dropwown list. Open settings for this dropdown and specify choices with following and also specify first choice as default value otherwise dropdown will have "Please selection one..." as first option.